The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pasttimes 1900-07: Vol 11 Iss 60 (1900)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 100
that the present tourna- ment system has many drawbacks. ‘It is apt to throw the good players together in the early heats, while the feebler ones may survive, because they only meet others who are no less feeble.’ There is much to be said in favour of the American method, when the eight best… … be a decided element of luck. Luck is said to follow good play, but who has not seen many instances of the little goddess, from some impish freak, persistently punishing good shots, while bad ones have trickled over or through all difficulties ? The proposal for a preliminary test competition of…
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